UConn star Paige Bueckers urges Biden admin to bring Brittney Griner home: 'She's a hero'

Cherelle Griner, wife of WNBA star Brittney Griner, shares her disappointment with Biden's silence on her wife's detainment on 'CBS Mornings.'

UConn women’s basketball star Paige Bueckers added her voice to the growing number of athletes who have called on the Biden administration to bring Brittney Griner home.

Bueckers appeared on ESPN’s "NBA Today" and had a message for President Joe Biden as Griner faces up to 10 years in prison after she was arrested in February for allegedly bringing vape cartridges containing oils derived from cannabis through a Moscow airport. She has been detained ever since.

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Connecticut Huskies guard Paige Bueckers looks on while wearing a shirt emblazoned with a graphic of Brittney Griner holding a "We Are BG" basketball, following the WNBA game between the Seattle Storm and the Connecticut Sun on June 17,2022, at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, CT. The Sun defeated the Storm 82-71.  ( Erica Denhoff/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

"Just a message to President Biden, the government and anybody with high enough power to help get Brittney Griner back home. I believe it's way far due for her to come home, and she's an American. She's a hero. She's our sister in the WNBA, and she's just family to the whole United States. So, just whatever it takes to get her home, I think it's definitely time," Bueckers said.

Bueckers is one of the more influential college basketball stars. She boasts more than 1 million followers on Instagram, 371,000 followers on TikTok and 72,800 followers on Twitter, 

Griner sent a letter to the White House Monday to make sure Biden and the rest of his administration do not "forget about me and the other American detainees"